1,000 bodies found on Miss. medical school campus

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For many Georgians, going to college in Mississippi would have felt like a horrifying prospect before they found 1,000 bodies on campus.

Now it has to creep out pretty much everyone.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center had planned to remove a grove of trees to build a new parking garage east of the dental school. While surveying the property, at least 1,000 bodies were found in a forgotten cemetery, reports The Clarion-Ledger.

Officials believe the bodies are former patients of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, which closed almost 100 years ago.

The school has an army of dead under it.

“There are probably thousands more bodies that we’ve never seen,” said Dr. Luke Lampton, chairman of the state Board of Health who has researched and written about the history of the asylum

http://blogs.ajc.com/news-to-me/2014/02/13/1000-bodies-found-on-miss-medical-school-campus/

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1. Ew, ew. creepy!

How many years would it take for that many people to die naturally and be buried there? Thousands of bodies? All former patients of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum?

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2. Article on Mississippi State Asylum Cemetary Project

From the article, the Asylum was open for 80 years. During reconstruction, annual deaths were 21 per year, but there were outbreaks of yellow fever in the 1870's and the institute was fought over during the civil war.

http://msacp.cobb.msstate.edu/history.html

Keeping to 21 deaths per year, there could be more than 1700 bodies there, most never noted or remembered.